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The Warning joins 49ers luminaries to announce the team’s fourth round selection in Monterrey, Mexico on April 26, 2025. The San Francisco 49ers got help from an unlikely place during Saturday’s ...

The San Francisco Symphony performs at Stern Grove Festival in San Francisco on July 4, 2021. Courtesy Paige K. Parsons. San Francisco Symphony musicians and its board appear to have avoided a strike.

Influenced by Queens of the Stone Age, Black Sabbath, Rush, Herbie Hancock and The Meters, The Alive is a California rock band launched between surf and skate sessions in 2018.

Benson Boone performs during BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 24, 2025. Sean Liming/STAFF. The annual Salesforce Dreamfest concert never lacks star power, and this year’s show set ...

Roman Gokhman is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of RIFF. He has been covering music in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2006, first as a staff writer for the Oakland Tribune, Contra Costa Times ...

Alexander Baechle grew up in California Gold Country, steeped in the classic rock LPs of yesteryear. Since then, he has toured the United States and Europe in his own band, worked at a brewery and ...